Waldorf Microwave XTk

Picture (c) Waldorf

An orange sound monster!

The last of its kind, it seems... the last Wavetable synthesizer built by Waldorf.

The Microwave II/XT/XTk are DSP-based wavetable synthesizers.
While this gives them a broader range of possibilities, the different technology leads
to different sonic results.
Where the original PPG Wave synthesizers and the earlier
Microwave I and
Wave
synthesizers used discrete logic and ASICs to run at sampling rates in the 200kHz range,
the DSP-based Microwaves create their samples at approx. 40 kHz, which leads to totally
different aliasing results. Plus, of course, the digital filters sound different to the analog
ones in the older synths.